Scraper.



V. STRUBHAR.

SCRAPER.

APPLlcATloN FILED FEB. 23. 1916.

Patented Nov. 7, 1916.

FIQE.

VALENTINE STRUBHAR, OF WASHINGTON, ILLINOIS.

SCRAPER.

Application led February 23, 1916.

To all whom t may concern Beit known that I, VALENTINE STRUBHAR, citizenof the United States, residing at lVashington, in the county of Tazewelland State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Scrapers; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable othersskilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to a device for removing mud and dirt from bootsand shoes. It pertains more particularly, however, to a so calledscraper adapted to be driven into the ground or attached to a suitablesupport, adjacent door ways or entrances to buildings, by which personsbefore entering may remove the mud and dirt from their shoes.

One of the objects of the invention is to furnish a simple scraper ofthis nature that can be manufactured at little cost and so arranged thatboth the sole of the shoe and the upper may be thoroughly cleaned.

Another object is to construct a simple device of the nature describedso constructed that the sole of the shoe may be readily cleaned and thenby merely lifting the foot the upper of the shoe may be brought beneathit by which the mud and dirt may be scraped from the top.

Another object is to provide a device of the nature described forscraping the sole of the shoe and which includes also a comparativelythin wirefor scraping 4the upper of the shoe, said wire serving to bracethe entire structure and which when broken, or otherwise rendereduseless, may be readily replaced by another.

To the end that the invention may be readily understood I have providedthe accompanying drawing, in which,

Figure l is an elevation of the complete scraper. Fig. 2 is a sideelevation of portions of the same showing a beveled scraping iron andthe method of attaching it to one of the uprights. Fig. 8 is a sideelevation of part of the device shown in Fig. l; and, Fig. 4L is a sideelevation of a slightly modified form of the same.

In the first three figures 1 indicates two upright bars preferably ofmetal and relatively thin, consistent with proper strength, which in thepresent instance are shown set in the ground but which may be secured inany Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. *7, 1916.

Serial No. 79,851.

suitable manner to a support which may be portable if'preferred.

2 is a cross bar secured to the uprights l as by riveting or bolting orany other desired method, and which if the device is to be driven intothe ground, may rest or lie adjacent to the ground surface.

Above the memberQ and preferably spaced about half way between it andthe upper free ends of the uprights is a cross member 3 whose ends mayextend some distance each way from the uprights; being secured to saiduprights in any good manner. Preferably the upper ends of the uprightsand the outer ends of the said member 3 as well as the slightlyprojecting ends of the member 2 maybe perforated as at 1i, for example,and a. wire 5 may be threaded through all of said perforations. Forinstance the end of the wire may be passed through one of theperforations of the member 2 and wrapped upon itself. From thence thewire extends through the outer end of the member 3 at that side of thedevice, thence through the perforation of the adjacent upright, thenceacross and between the two uprights and through the opposite one. thencedown through the perforation of the opposite end of the member 3terminating at the member 2 where its end is secured substantially asshown. Between the uprights the member 3 is preferably beveled so as toprovide a scraping edge 6, Fig. 2.

In Fig. 4 I have shown a slightly modified form of the device. Insteadof using the described perforations 4; I employ a projecting headed stud7 projecting from the uprights 1 and the extremities of the members 2and 3. The wire indicated in this figure by the numeral 8 in thisinstance is vwound one or more timesaround each of them as indicated at9, its terminals having the same relative position as those in Fig. 1.

In use the scraping edge 6 is employed to remove the dirt and mud fromthe sole of the shoe, the inner edges of the uprights 1 being used toremove the mud from the edge of the sole and side of the shoe bybringing the shoe first against one and then the other.

Where mud adheres to the top of the shoe the said shoe may be raisedagainst the wire and moved beneath it in order to still furtherthoroughly clean the shoe, the angled portions outside the uprightsbeing employed by bringing the shoe against them.

I preferably use a fairly small gage wire Y io Adescribed meets everyrequirement being very eiiicient in its work.

The wire when broken Vcan be readily replaced by another in a fewmoments time Yand as the other parts of the device are preferably oi'metal there is little danger of their being breken.

ll desire to state that l do not wish to be confined to the exactarrangement shown Vand described since slight changes may be madetherein ywithout departing from the spirit and intent of the invention.

v Having' thus described my invention, l

Y claim l. In a shoe sc aper, a pair of spaced up-V rights, a` barextending at right angles to them andsecured to each, its ends projectfVsecured at their ends ing beyond both, and a wire extending between theuprights and Vspaced above the bar and having terminal portionsextending Voutwzu-dly and downwardly at an angle and engaging theprojecting ends of the bar and rights below said bar.

In a shoe scraper, a support, a cross-V member secured relatively to 1tand eXtending beyond it at each side, a wire securedV relatively to Vthe.up-V

relatively-'to the support belowV the cross#A member andextending upwardand engaging the' extended end ef the latter, thence extending upward tothe upper portion of the support, thence extending downward toV andengaging the otherextended end of the cross-member and secured.relatively to. the said support, said'wire being spacedfrom the severalparts of the structure to 'aiord scraping portions forfthe shoelVv x Intestimony whereof I YaftiXiny signature,

in presenceV of two witnesses.

VALENTINE STRUBHAR.

lVitnesses: j

EV. SLmiMoNs, L. M. THUnnow. i

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